1951 Nippon Professional Baseball season

This article is about the 1951 Nippon Professional Baseball season only. For information on all of baseball, see 1951 in baseball.

1951 NPB season
League	Nippon Professional Baseball
Sport	Baseball
Central League Pennant
League champions	Yomiuri Giants
Runners-up	Nagoya Dragons
Season MVP	Tetsuharu Kawakami (YOM)
Pacific League Pennant
League champions	Nankai Hawks
Runners-up	Nishitetsu Lions
Season MVP	Kazuto Yamamoto (NAN)
Japan Series
Champions	Yomiuri Giants
Runners-up	Nankai Hawks
Finals MVP	Fukashi Minamimura (YOM)

The 1951 Nippon Professional Baseball season was the second season of operation of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).

Regular season

Game	Date	Score	Location	Time	Attendance
1	October 10	Yomiuri Giants – 5, Nankai Hawks – 0	Osaka Stadium	2:22	29,074^[1]
2	October 11	Yomiuri Giants – 7, Nankai Hawks – 0	Osaka Stadium	1:57	27,639^[1]
3	October 13	Nankai Hawks – 1, Yomiuri Giants – 3	Korakuen Stadium	2:14	35,066^[1]
4	October 16	Nankai Hawks – 4, Yomiuri Giants – 3	Korakuen Stadium	2:13	31,936^[1]
5	October 17	Nankai Hawks – 2, Yomiuri Giants – 8	Korakuen Stadium	1:52	15,519^[1]

Batting leaders
Stat	Player	Team	Total
Batting average	Tetsuharu Kawakami	Yomiuri Giants	.377
Home runs	Noboru Aota	Yomiuri Giants	32
Runs batted in	Noboru Aota	Yomiuri Giants	105
Runs	Noboru Aota	Yomiuri Giants	101
Hits	Tsuguo Goto	Osaka Tigers	155
Stolen bases	Goro Tsuchiya	Kokutetsu Swallows	52

Pitching leaders
Stat	Player	Team	Total
Wins	Shigeru Sugishita	Nagoya Dragons	28
Losses	Masaichi Kaneda	Kokutetsu Swallows	21
Earned run average	Kiyoshi Matsuda	Yomiuri Giants	2.01
Strikeouts	Masaichi Kaneda	Kokutetsu Swallows	233
Innings pitched	Masaichi Kaneda	Kokutetsu Swallows	350

Batting leaders
Stat	Player	Team	Total
Batting average	Hiroshi Oshita	Tokyu Flyers	.383
Home runs	Hiroshi Oshita	Tokyu Flyers	26
Runs batted in	Tokuji Iida	Nankai Hawks	87
Runs	Kazuo Yamamoto	Nankai Hawks	97
Hits	Chusuke Kizuka	Nankai Hawks	130
Stolen bases	Chusuke Kizuka	Nankai Hawks	55

Pitching leaders
Stat	Player	Team	Total
Wins	Tadashi Eto	Nankai Hawks	24
Losses	Mitsuro Sawafuji	Kintetsu Pearls	16
Earned run average	Takeo Hattori	Nankai Hawks	2.03
Strikeouts	Hachiro Abe	Hankyu Braves	150
Innings pitched	Yasuo Yonekawa	Tokyu Flyers	294 ²⁄₃

Most Valuable Player
- Tetsuharu Kawakami, Yomiuri Giants (CL)
- Kazuto Yamamoto, Nankai Hawks (PL)
Rookie of the Year
- Kiyoshi Matsuda, Yomiuri Giants (CL)
- Kazuo Kageyama, Nankai Hawks (PL)
Eiji Sawamura Award
- Shigeru Sugishita, Nagoya Dragons (CL)

Johnson, Daniel E. (July 2006). Japanese Baseball: A Statistical Handbook. McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-2841-0.

Nippon Professional Baseball Seasons

1930s–1940s (Japanese Baseball League)	1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 (1945) 1946 1947 1948 1949

1950s–1960s	1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969

1970s–1980s	1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989

1990s–2000s	1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

2010s–2020s	2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Japan Series Climax Series

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